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Only electricity can give the transport sector the flexibility to switch fuels when one or more become too expensive.

Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves - and by which they are willing to be judged.

Frederick W. Smith

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Frederick W. Smith

A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can.

Frederick W. Smith

I'm not afraid to take a swing and miss.

Frederick W. Smith

Beginning in 1973 and then acts in '77, '78, 1980, 1994 and then into the 21st century in the international arena, governments have steadily gotten out of the transportation business.

Frederick W. Smith

The United States tax system today is very prejudiced towards financialization, leverage, and lack of investment.

Frederick W. Smith

The biggest part of our business has always been moving things, not paper. With the Internet, people in Mississippi can buy things from Macedonia, without regard to time or place or quantity.

Frederick W. Smith

My innovation involved taking an idea from the telecommunications and banking industries, and applying that idea to transportation business.

Frederick W. Smith

There is no free market for oil. It's controlled by a cartel, OPEC.

Frederick W. Smith

Information about the package is as important as the package itself.

Frederick W. Smith

Every time we make an investment decision at FedEx, we ask ourselves: 'What is the return on this investment?'

Frederick W. Smith

If you look historically, what creates growth and wealth is innovation and investment, and increase in scale - more customers.

Frederick W. Smith

Only electricity can give the transport sector the flexibility to switch fuels when one or more become too expensive.

Frederick W. Smith

My four years in the Marine Corps left me with an indelible understanding of the value of leadership skills.

Frederick W. Smith

I do not believe I could have built FedEx without the skills I learned from the Marine Corps.

Frederick W. Smith

The tax rate of 35 percent is impossible to provide an incentive to the large corporations, that have $1.7 trillion offshore, to put their money back in the United States.

Frederick W. Smith